A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.